Sunday, 18 July 2010

Pal Budster says:http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/13/robert-rodriguez-talks-difference-between-predators-trailer-and-film/“Usually people complain that trailers show way too much. But in this case, there was a nice piece of misdirection used to, as Rodriguez says, get the idea of the movie across while retaining some surprise for those who actually pay to see it. I don’t see the problem.”

"get the idea of the movie across"doesn't the fucking TITLE DO THAT?we've got the film "Predator", it's about AN alien that hunts peoplenow we have the film PREDATORSI WONDER WHAT THE FUCK THAT WILL BE ABOUT MAYBE SOME ALIENS?

Rad C Hauser says:this has made me annoyed

Pal Budster says:“And reveals that on Earth he was a psychopathic murderer”i hated that part of the filmlikei meanpsychopathic murderer is a role it is pretty easy to showbut when the character has to fucking explain that he is a psychopathic murderer?it's like what is this?the fucking 1950s?where's his top hat and moustache you fucking DICKS

Rad C Hauser says:hahahathe characters in that film are SO awfulthat shit you saidthat rodi rigz wanted each one to be able to be a star of his own filmmade me angrybecause not one of them can handle even a second sentence of descriptionand most are described in maybe 3 words

Pal Budster says:hahaha yeah

Rad C Hauser says:except the ciaranwho is described with likeone word at most

Pal Budster says:oneyeahthat fucking russian guyof course he had a minigunsaid Antal, "and would have done this film a disservice because we are not trying to remake or copy the original film."

Rad C Hauser says:hahayou're not ehgood job

Pal Budster says:oh you are not copying the original film except for it is in a jungle and there is a minigun and the predators don't appear for 20 minutes and there is the song from the original and soundbites from the original and just fuck youI think Predator is a good film

Rad C Hauser says:same

Pal Budster says:and i mean it's a little kitsch, in a waybut like

Rad C Hauser says:yeah definitelyit's toned nicely and shit

Pal Budster says:Predators could have been great, and really enhanced the "Myth" of that film, you know?but like

Rad C Hauser says:yeahbut it's just too sci hi

Pal Budster says:as soon as there was that "action beat" with the dogsit's like

Rad C Hauser says:too schlocky cartoony

Pal Budster says:all the tension is just fucked offyeah cartoony is rightit's like "oh shit when did george lucas walk past the fucking script writing meeting"

Rad C Hauser says:hahaha

Pal Budster says:George Lucas: I have one word for you my friend: dogs and spikes.Anyone else: that's two words GeorgeGeorge Lucas: THAT WILL BE ONE MILLION DOLLARS PLEASELaurence Fishburne as Roland Noland:I am killing myself

Pal Budster says:Changchien, who plays "Hanzo", also stated about his own character: "I guess he used to be a guy who can murder someone without a qualm, but by the time he arrives to the Hunting Camp, he'll no longer be that kind of person. Those things aren't explained in the script, but you'll get it when you see the movie."I mean, i like the idea there is something goin on in that character’s mind that we don't really seebut at the same timefucking 1999

Rad C Hauser says:yeah i like when there's this effortbut that was no effortthat was some turdo times

Pal Budster says:yeahlikei meanmaybe that guy was just quietly reflecting the whole timebut when he decides like "oh you know what i don't want to run through this field i will just stand here and fight a predator"WHATit's likemaybe he would decide "now is the time to maybe sacrifice my life"

Rad C Hauser says:i hatedthe "japanese noise" that happenedwhen he made his decision

Pal Budster says:hahahayeah

Rad C Hauser says:and i hated that it used the billy music

Pal Budster says:no one from outisde japan understands japanyeahwellthat's one of the good things about the first filmyou can basically describe any character from the first film in about 5 seconds

Rad C Hauser says:he died, and it didn't show it

Pal Budster says:but together there was a chemistry, you could tell these guys were close and it was coolbut yeah also thatbut like

Rad C Hauser says:yeah

Pal Budster says:fuckinminigun guy in the first filmhe has a little joke with one guy at one pointand then mac is like having a drink in his honor and shitit suggested something moremade those characters more 3 dimensionaland obv in Predators all the characters have just met each otherbut they're ALL really shitthe african guy was vaguely enigmaticbut everyone else was just shitand likethe fucking lunatic inmate wants to kill him? then he doesn't give a shit?all the characters were like that

Rad C Hauser says:yeah totallyyeah mac and blaine are 'friends' in the first oneand it's kind of just fleeted over but it's there and it's nice

Pal Budster says:yeahif there had been more tension, like a lot of tension, between the characters in this filmlike you were basically surprised they didn't all kill each otheror maybe if they did kill each other morelike fucking

Rad C Hauser says:yeah they become friends much too quickly

Pal Budster says:battle royale with predatorsrather than just being the shittest x men ever

Rad C Hauser says:and the only 'nice' guy is the one that indiscriminately fires at them all with his minigun

Pal Budster says:hahah yeahalso likei meanthe predators are meant to be hunting the humansbut likehang on phoneok helloyeahpreds hunting humans but likewhen the predator kills fuckin russianit's likein a corridor, having been shot in the chest, as the guy is running awayjust doesn't seem very hunterly?more likehe's the bad guy? in a sci fi horror film?

Rad C Hauser says:yeah they definitely are shitterIn an interview, Carl Weathers said the actors would secretly wake up as early as 3:00 a.m. to work out before the day's shooting. Weathers also stated that he would act as if his physique was naturally given to him, and would work out only after the other actors were nowhere to be seen.

Pal Budster says:hahahawhat the fuckalso, going back to the "hunter" thingand without wanting to talk about what does and doesn't make sense in the film Predators, because obviously on a fundamental level NONE OF IT makes any fucking sensebut likeif you took a human and made it fight a lion in hand to hand combat obviously the lion would winand that's what hunting is aboutthat's why people use guns and set traps and try to out smart the lionbut the predatorsa naked predator would kick the absolute shit out of a humanand they're invisibleand they can blow up spaceships by pushing a buttonit's likewhat's the fucking point in hunting anyone, you know?and i meanthe predator in the first filmcomes to earthsneaks around, kills people, splits up the groupit's a hunterand it's trying not to be detected by humansand when it ISit blows itself up to shit, presumably not just as an honour thing, but because it has failed it's mission of remaining undetectedall that alien technology has to go

Rad C Hauser says:yeah

Pal Budster says:i can understand the aliens doing thatbut putting humans on some shitto alien planetit's likewhat the fuck fuck offand like we were all sayingthat yakuza guywhy even put him in a fucking jungle?what the FUCK is he going to do there, apart from take his fucking shoes off?You don't hunt a lion by taking a lion and putting it in the fucking seaFUCK OFF PREDATOR DICKS YOU ARE DUMB AS SHIT

Rad C Hauser says:hahahahayeah imagine how much better it would have beenif the predator beat all the characters on their own termslike fucked danny trejo's wife and stole all his cokebeat the yakuza at gambling and dishonoured him

Pal Budster says:hahahai would love it if predators were just really shit at urban combatand like the predator in predator 2 was the best they had ever done

Rad C Hauser says:haha

Pal Budster says:and every time they see a building they are hugely embarassed